the sun. the light.
If I beheld the sun when it shined - Margin, light. The Hebrew word ( אור 'ôr ) properly means light, but that it here means the sun is manife...
If I beheld the (r) sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness; (r) If I was proud of my worldly prosperity and happiness, which is mea...
Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water...
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; If I beheld the sun when it shined - In this verse Job clears himself of tha...
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; If I looked unto the Sun (as an object of worship), because he shined;...
Job Protests the Innocence of his Past Life Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family li...
If I beheld the sun. — It is remarkable that the kind of idolatry repudiated by Job is that only of sun and moon worship. He seems to have been ign...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become in...
the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even i...
This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends....
(9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let...
If I beheld the sun when it shined ,.... Some take this to be a reason why Job did not make gold his hope and confidence, because all sublunary and...
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness; Ver. 26. If I beheld the sun when it shined ] viz. To adore it, as the Pe...
If I beheld the sun when it shined Namely, in its full strength and glory; when it most affected men's minds and hearts with admiration of its beau...
Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any...
Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. B. C. 1520....
If I beheld; not simply, nor only with admiration; (for it is a glorious work of God, which we ought to contemplate and admire;) but for the end he...
JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprig...
Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless...
I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the senses Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially th...
If I have made gold my hope. On the love of money How universal is it among those who are in pursuit of wealth to make gold their hope; and, am...
EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charg...
Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
if I beheld the sun when it shined, his light being worshiped by the Chaldeans as an emanation from God, or the moon walking in brightness, wanderi...
2 Kings 23:11 ; 2 Kings 23:5 ; Deuteronomy 11:16 ; Deuteronomy 17:3 ; Deuteronomy 4:19 ; Ezekiel 8:16 ; Genesis 1:16-18 ; Jeremiah 44:17 ; J...
I — This place speaks of the worship of the host of heaven, and especially of the sun and moon, the most eminent and glorious of that number, which...
26 If I beheld the sund when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;